I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis.
The disobedient child is continuously condemned. The obedient child is, on the other hand, continuously praised. But have you heard of any obedient child having become world-famous in any dimension of creativity? Have you heard of any obedient child who has attained the Nobel prize for anything - literature, peace, science? The obedient child becomes just the common crowd. All that is added to existence is added by the disobedient.
Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.
Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.
Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature.
I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street.
Literature seemed to be everything then. People looked to it for the strength to live, for guidance, for revelation.
With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry.
Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience. . . from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
The affair between Margot Asquinth and Margot Asquinth will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.
The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.
Realism is a very sophisticated form of literature, a very grown-up one. And that may be its weakness. But fantasy seems to be eternal and omnipresent and always attractive to kids.
Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.